Tamati So

Spokes H’s 1987 album Tamati So marks a move away from the disco, American-influenced sounds of bubblegum, and towards a purely electronic, dance orientated sound. The album in fact was an early soundtrack to the rise of the Pantsula, the fast, incredibly acrobatic dance style that emerged in black townships as a response to apartheid era policies, and that had become increasingly political in the late 1980s. Initially pantsula dancers would dance to live music, and later to the American pop and early hip hop they heard on the radio, but in the 1990s it was kwaito that would blast out of speakers at the township street parties. As pioneer of Kwaito and with Tamati So becoming an early pantsula staple, Spokes H deserves to be remembered as the legend he is.